Tag: darn

23 DEC

Hunting for the reason why the Western US has so darn many odd volcanoes

Enlarge / The eruptions being studied are marked in pink, with the white numbers showing the age of each eruption in millions of years. (credit: Zhou et al/Nature Geoscience) The weird thing about volcanic activity in the Western United States is that it’s actually quite difficult to explain. The Cascade volcanoes of the Pacific Northwest […]

04 AUG

‘Darn impressive’ Curry mixes it with golf pros

Stephen Curry during the Web.com Tour’s Ellie Mae Classic golf tournament. Staff writersFOX SPORTS Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Reddit Email a friend NOT that we should be surprised, but Stephen Curry is really, really good at golf. The NBA superstar made his debut appearance on golf’s Web.com […]

04 JUL

Intel Core i9-7900X review: The fastest chip in the world, but too darn expensive

Enlarge (credit: Mark Walton) Intel’s latest 10-core, high-end desktop (HEDT) chip—the Core i9-7900X—costs £900/$ 1000. That’s £500/$ 500 less than its predecessor, the i7-6950X. In previous years, such cost-cutting would have been regarded as generous. You might, at a stretch, even call it good value. But that was at a time when Intel’s monopoly on […]